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Onondaga Community College celebrated the completion of its Micron Cleanroom Simulation Lab during a ceremony held on campus October 1. Remarks were delivered outside, and a ceremonial "wire cutting" was held inside.

The Micron Cleanroom Simulation Lab was constructed in the Whitney Applied Technology Center, along with new training centers for Welding, CNC Machining, and Diesel/Heavy Equipment Repair. The renovated space in the south wing of Whitney also includes a Machine Tools lab, and an Automotive Technology lab.

Thursday, October 16 at 5:30pm, Onondaga Community College will honor a new class of Alumni Faces inductees. The ceremony will be held in the Frederick Marvin and Ernst Schuh Recital Hall in the Academic II building. In the weeks leading up to the ceremony, we are highlighting one of our new Alumni Faces honorees every Wednesday.

Micron Technology is looking for its next group of summer interns!

Mike Guttman, Micron's Program Manager for Workforce Strategies, hosted an information session for students on September 29 in Onondaga Community College's Gordon Student Center Great Room. He spent an hour discussing Micron's role in the semiconductor industry, the important part interns play in its future, and answered student questions.

Eight current OCC students interned at Micron in the summer of 2025 - seven in Manassas, Virginia, and one in Boise, Idaho.

When Ghena Al-Taleb walks into her Electromechanical Technology classes, she brings more than textbooks. She carries a story that began in her war-torn home country of Syria, continued through a decade of uncertainty in Lebanon, and found hope in Central New York.

Now 24 years old, Al-Taleb arrived with big dreams and the quiet determination to achieve them. "A lot of people on the outside said I couldn't go to college if I didn't speak the language well, but I never stopped studying English."

Students in Onondaga Community College's Criminal Justice Club kicked off the academic year by welcoming two distinguished guests: Julie Corn, Commissioner of the Department of Communications/911 for Onondaga County, and 911 Center Deputy Commissioner Esteban Gonzalez. The two leaders shared their career journeys, offered professional insights, and answered student questions.

Dillon Davis-Tirado felt he had hit a dead end. At age 31, he believed he had gone as far as he could without a college degree, but he didn't have the means to afford one. "I had 10 years experience - as an assembly line worker, a sales specialist, a journalist, and an operations manager for a major clothing retailer. I'd gotten as high as $22 an hour in pay. But I needed a leg up."

Students, faculty, and staff from Onondaga Community College recently joined forces to help beautify a Syracuse Neighborhood during Home HeadQuarters' annual Neighborhood Block Blitz. The event brought together volunteers from across the city to provide free repairs, landscaping, and painting to local homes. 

"Volunteer work - and in particular, this assignment - is a strong passion of mine," said student Gregory Anderson. "Our self-worth is tied to how we view ourselves and the world around us. Projects like this directly impact people in a positive manner."

Thursday, October 16 at 5:30pm, Onondaga Community College will honor a new class of Alumni Faces inductees. The ceremony will be held in the Frederick Marvin and Ernst Schuh Recital Hall in the Academic II building. In the weeks leading up to the ceremony, we are highlighting one of our new Alumni Faces honorees every Wednesday.

Vicki R. Brackens, ChFC is the newest member of Onondaga Community College's Board of Trustees. She was sworn in by Board Chair John P. Sindoni Esq. during the Trustees' September 23 meeting, its first of the academic year.

Onondaga Community College Alumna Dawn Penson '20 has a relentless desire to help others. She brought that passion to campus earlier this month when she organized and presented, "Living With Vision Loss," a resource fair aimed at providing independence and building community. "We have 35 organizations here to help connect everybody who is blind or has low vision with the tools and resources they need to live autonomous lives. This is our second year, and we plan on this getting bigger and better every year," she said.